JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. III. 1857. 



An Account of the mountain district forming the western boundary of 

 the Lower Derdjdt, commonly called eoh, with notices of the tribes 

 inhabiting it. — By Lieut. H. Gr. Eaverty, 3rd Regiment Bombay 

 N. L. Assistant Commissioner, Mult an. 



To any one who may ever have been stationed in the Derajat, as 

 the important tract of level country extending from some miles 

 north of Dera Ismaseil Khan, to the frontier of Upper Sindh, and 

 lying between the Indus, " The Father of Eivers," and the lofty 

 mountains to the west, the name of Eoh, will be as familiar as a 

 " Household Word." It may not, however, be so well known to 

 others who have never had occasion to serve so far west ; and as the 

 extent and general meaning of the term Eoh is not well denned at 

 present and but little known, I will endeavour to throw some light 

 on the matter, from enquiries instituted with this view, and from 

 my own information on the subject, together with what I have 

 gathered from a few Beluch Chieftains with whom I became 

 acquainted during my residence in the Derajat.* 



An Afghan author describes Eoh as, " The name of an Afghan 

 country of which the eastern (N. E.) boundary extends to Kashmir, 

 and the western (S. "W.) as far as the river Iilmand (Helmand) near 

 Herat, between which two countries is a distance of two and a half 



* See my account of a visit to the Shrine of Sakhi-Sarwar in the Lower 

 Derajat, with a notice of the Mela or annual fair held there. Journal of Bengal 

 Asiatic Society, September, 1855. 



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